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Annette Fuentes is an American journalist who writes regularly on health and social policy for The New York Times , The Nation , the Village Voice , The Progressive , and In These Times , where she is a contributing editor. Fuentes was also on the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She is author of the 2011 book, 'Lockdown High; When the Schoolhouse becomes a Jailhouse'.

Fuentes is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today's Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section.

She is co-author with Barbara Ehrenreich of Women in the Global Factory (1983).

In earlier years, Fuentes was the health and hospitals reporter at the New York Daily News , an assistant editor for op-eds at Newsday , the Metro editor at the Village Voice, and an editorial writer and columnist at El Diario/La Prensa , New York City's largest Spanish-language daily newspaper, Fuentes was also the editor of City Limits (New York magazine) , a monthly covering housing and community development.

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